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PetrichorBias ,

One thing I’d like to suggest is to include the episode number in the post title alongside the “[SPOILER]” warning.

It may be obvious to us now that the spoiler is for the latest episode, but it becomes a bit of a problem for anyone watching in the future and is reading the sticky post and/or other posts related to that episode.

While I used to routinely binge-read manga or binge-watch anime, I very often went to the stickied post which had discussions about a particular chapter/episode. I felt that I was missing out on some fan art/discussions that had the spoiler tag because I didn’t know which chapter/episode the spoiler was for.

Something as simple as [SPOILER] [S8E1] in the post title makes search easier.

PetrichorBias ,

This was a problem on reddit too. Anyone could create accounts - heck, I had 8 accounts:

one main, one alt, one “professional” (linked publicly on my website), and five for my bots (whose accounts were optimistically created, but were never properly run). I had all 8 accounts signed in on my third-party app and I could easily manipulate votes on the posts I posted.

I feel like this is what happened when you’d see posts with hundreds / thousands of upvotes but had only 20-ish comments.

There needs to be a better way to solve this, but I’m unsure if we truly can solve this. Botnets are a problem across all social media (my undergrad thesis many years ago was detecting botnets on Reddit using Graph Neural Networks).

Fwiw, I have only one Lemmy account.

PetrichorBias ,

That’s genuinely very cool. I wonder how many of them are duplicates (same link across different communities on different servers). Regardless, I’m pretty happy that it appears that Lemmy is quite active. It really does feel like reddit when you see posts with hundreds or even thousands of upvotes.

Huge thanks to the lemmy devs and instance admins.

PetrichorBias ,

Was it hard to get this standardized back in the good ol’ days?

Do you think it would be as easy to do it now? If not, what challenges and hurdles would a RFC have to overcome?

The last thing I know that was pretty “significant” is the GNU Terry Pratchett header (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#Death) and that was a community effort.

PetrichorBias ,

Wow! That’s awesome! Boost was the app I used to use and I can’t wait for Boost for Lemmy to come out! I’ll keep waiting :D

Good luck!

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